Hearing Aid & Accessories

Hearing Aid & Accessories

Hearing Aids You Can Trust & A Staff You Can Count On

Hearing aids are small electronic devices that you select with the help of a hearing care professional. They are worn in or behind your ear. They makes some speech louder so that a person with hearing loss can listen, communicate, and participate more fully in daily activities. Hearing aids can help people hear more in both quiet and noisy situations. However, only about one out of five people who would benefit from a hearing aid actually uses one.

A hearing aid has three basic parts: a microphone, amplifier, and speaker. The hearing aid device receives sound through a microphone, which converts the sound waves to electrical signals and sends them to an amplifier. The amplifier increases the power of the signals and then sends them to the ear through a speaker.

How Hearing Aids Can Help You

Hearing aids magnify sound vibrations entering the ear. Surviving hair cells detect the larger vibrations and convert them into neural signals that are passed along to the brain. The greater the damage to a hair cells, the more severe the hearing loss, and the greater the hearing aid amplification needed to make up the difference.

However, there are practical limits to the amount of amplification a hearing aid can provide. In addition, if the inner ear is too damaged, even large vibrations will not be converted into neural signals. In this situation, a hearing aid would be ineffective.

What to Do NOW

If you think you might have hearing loss and could benefit from hearing aids, call us directly and schedule a no-obligation appointment with a hearing care professional.